Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 35 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

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Women live with their worst enemies

Not only in Egypt, sexual violence against women occurs everywhere in the world. Women are exploited, insulted, oppressed, beaten, threatened, harassed, tortured, raped, killed by no other beings but men, their fellow humans.

“Not only in Egypt, sexual violence against women occurs everywhere in the world. Women are exploited, insulted, oppressed, beaten, threatened, harassed, tortured, raped, killed by no other beings but men, their fellow humans.”

Maybe in a miniscule amount. Not n the AMOUNT THAT MEN DO TO WOMEN EVERY SINGLE DAY OF OUR LIVES! Are you hiding under a rock? Go read a newspaper and see how everyday, women are beaten, killed, raped, stalked, etc. by their SIGNIFICANT OTHER. Husband, boyfriend, it doesn’t matter. Watch the news if you dare. By sayng what you said, you are trying to excuse men for their incessant violence against women. I am a rape survivor. When people open up to me, (both men and women) and tell me they were molested, raped, etc., guess who the perp is? Surely not a cat. Yes, it was a man. Stop making excuses for men’s bad, evil behaviour. I am tired of people like you trying to skirt the issue of men’s violence against women by making such ridiculous statements.

Is there any statistical data which gives comparative analysis of woman given treatment Religion wise, country wise.

I believe that:
Muslim women suffer the above treatment most by the hands of their fellow Muslim Men.
Non Muslim women suffer the above treatment by the hands of Muslim Men.
Islam orders Muslim Men to exploit, insult, oppress, beat, threaten, harrass, torture, rape, kill women on flimsy reasons.
Where ever there is Islam on the Earth their the above treatment is given by Muslim Men to all Women irrespective of their religion. Islam gives LEGITIMACY for giving such treatment to Women.

Islam is the epicenter of above treatment of women. All women should strive to finish the Islam, not Muslims, from the face of Earth.

Muslims who become terrorists are not fools but they make that choice out of the conscious which they get from Islam.

Islam is the religion which gives justification for doing any thing you want, good or bad. So terrorists do terror taking inspiration from Islam and then other Muslims say that Islam preaches good things by showing only the good part of Islam. These so called good Muslims will never discuss about the bad things the Islam preaches which shows that even their intentions are not good.

It is the religion which justifies:
Raping daughter in law and than making her wife,
Marrying 6 year girl by 52 year man,
Degrading woman to the level of prostitute by forcing the wife to sleep with other man after divorce to remarry with the first husband,
Divorcing wife on flimsy reasons and then kicking her out with kids,
Paying money (meher) to wife on honeymoon for doing sex with her as if she is prostitute,
Possessing woman in Right Hand and Left Hand; In right right hand means wives and in left hand means captured woman. When wives are so much persecuted than the situation of left hand possessed woman must be like in hell.

I do agree with you 100% that sexual violence occurs everywhere in the world.
I also do agree with you that Muslim women would suffer most the above treatment by the hands of Muslim men . In case of Non-Muslim women it is also 100% true. And so, I think that sex violence would occurs most in the Muslim country. It happens because, as you have mentioned, Islam gives legitimacy to the hatred, inhuman and barbaric treatment to women.
You have correctly mentioned that Islam gives inspiration to the Muslims to make themselves terrorists, but the so-called progressive do not admit this. They would not discuss it , and instead of it they always propagate that Islam preaches peace and harmony. It is true that there are some verses in favor of peace and communal harmony in the Quran, but these were rejected by Muhammad himself afterwards.
Finally I would like to say that I have some difference of opinion with your concluding comment that 90% evil of the earth will finish once Islam is finished. Of course, it can be said that a major portion of evil will certainly be removed once Islam is finished.
Thank you so much fo your valuable post.